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Oracle releases GraphPipe, an open-source tool for deploying AI models
Major tech firms regularly open-source internal software projects, but it’s not often that Oracle Corp.’s name comes up in this context. Today marked one of those occasions. The database giant this morning released GraphPipe, a tool for easing the deployment of machine learning models. Development on the project was led by Oracle cloud architect Vish Abrams, ...
Amazon and Microsoft launch public preview of their Alexa-Cortana integration
A year after joining forces to integrate their voice assistants, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today rolled out the capability into public preview. The integration is available in public preview to all U.S. customers with supported devices. Accessing Cortana via Alexa requires a smart speaker from Amazon’s Echo series, while the reverse is possible on Windows 10 ...
Y Combinator taps ex-Baidu COO to lead new push into China
Prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator late Tuesday revealed plans to set up a Chinese arm in a move that marks its first major expansion outside the United States. The initiative will be led by Qi Lu, a veteran technologist with a computer science doctorate and more than 40 patents to his name who previously served as the ...
Sonatype launches DepShield to spot vulnerable open-source code in applications
Enterprises rely extensively on open-source software in their application projects, but the time saved by using ready-made components comes at a cost. Incorporating outside code into the mix can potentially introduce new security vulnerabilities. Sonatype Inc., a software security startup backed by more than $70 million from investors such as Accel, is tackling the issue. Today it launched a free ...
EBay opens up its AI image recognition and translation features to developers
EBay Inc. today introduced two new application programming interfaces that will enable developers to add some of the online marketplace’s artificial intelligence features to their own services. The most extensive of the pair is the Image Search API. As the name suggests, the interface gives developers access to the visual search tools that eBay has implemented in ...
Alphabet’s DeepMind develops an AI that diagnoses eye disease with 94% accuracy
DeepMind, Alphabet Inc.’s U.K.-based artificial intelligence group, has developed a system that it claims can diagnose more than 50 different eye diseases with an accuracy of 94 percent. The group detailed the project in a study published by scientific journal Nature Medicine today. The system is the fruit of a more than two-year collaboration between DeepMind ...
SAP’s new no-nonsense Concur Travel bot lets users book flights via Slack
Booking flights for employees is just one of the many activities involved in a company’s day-to-day operations, but it’s big business for SAP SE. The technology giant bought travel management provider Concur Technologies Inc. for $8 billion in 2014 and has since grown the division’s user base to more than 46 million workers. SAP now ...
Hollywood taps the Linux Foundation to create a home for its open-source projects
Hollywood is joining the open-source movement. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, best known as the organizer of the Oscars, today announced that it has teamed up with the Linux Foundation to create a home for the entertainment industry’s open-source projects. To this end, they’ve established a new organization called the Academy Software ...
Qualcomm settles $773M antitrust case in Taiwan amid global legal battle
Qualcomm Inc. late Thursday announced that it has settled an antitrust case with Taiwan’s competition regulator in a development that could hold broad legal implications for the chipmaker. Under the agreement, the settlement will replace a $773 million fine that was levied against the company last year. The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission imposed the penalty after finding ...
At Unpacked 2018, Samsung unveils Galaxy Note 9, a new smart speaker and more
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today debuted the long-anticipated Galaxy Note 9, a homegrown smart speaker to challenge Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and a variety of other products. Indeed, the new “phablet” was the star of Samsung’s big Unpacked conference today. The Note 9 looks mostly similar to last year’s model, featuring only a handful of external changes headlined ...